14 February, 2013 at 20:06
Our Iceberg Project, a residential apartment complex in Århus, Denmark, has been nominated one of the 4 finalists for the 2013 MIPIM Residential Award. The award ceremony is held in Cannes, France from the 12-15 of March. We’ll keep our fingers crossed until then. Click here to see more of the Iceberg.
Vote online for our project here!
14 February, 2013 at 19:59
We recently took part in a competition for an apartment complex in Ghent and submitted 2 radically different concepts to engage in a contextual and pragmatic dialogue with our client and the city of Ghent. See the details of the proposals here.
14 February, 2013 at 19:57
We teamed up with Diana Balmori for an invited competition to rethink Downtown Lexington, Kentucky. The project establishes, around the dayligthting of the Towns Branch Commons creek, a series of potential developments, among others the renovation of the Rupp Arena by Spacegroup and a proposal to turn its surrounding neighborhood into a hybrid of park and mix programs to boost its living qualities. See the details of our proposal here.
14 February, 2013 at 18:06
Eva Harlou of the Danish television series, The Architect’s Home Abroad, travels with Julien to his hometown of Brussels for an intimate look at his home and philosophies of living. See the entire episode online. Most parts of the episode are in English, but there are some Danish moments that will be translated for our global audience soon.
14 February, 2013 at 18:01
Our Iceberg building on BLUEPRINT’s cover and as an extended feature collected by Shumi Bose for the magazine’s current #324 issue.
14 February, 2013 at 17:50
Julien De Smedt writes the TRIBUNE column for French Archistorm Magazine. The text, entitled Performative VS. Dogmatic, is a critique of the rebirth of a form of minimal and dogmatic architecture and offers other possible directions. See more here.
28 January, 2013 at 15:32
Kick off your weekend with a Friday bar at JDS Architects & KLAR. We’re opening our doors for a behind the scenes look at our office environment, our current projects and a chance to say hello.
Date and time: 15th of February from 16:00 – 17.30
Location: Vesterbrogade 69D (baghuset), 1st floor, 1620 Copenhagen V (map)
Info: DAC Wondercool
RSVP: RSVP here
21 December, 2012 at 16:50
Season greetings from us to you! It looks like the world didn’t end after all.
We look forward to sharing our future with you in the upcoming year!
All love.
JDS
23 November, 2012 at 15:38
Our team is selected as 1 of 5 to compete for the ambitious Town Branch Commons, bringing Town Branch Creek to the surface for the first time in more than 100 years!
The JDS core team is composed of Balmori (NYC) for landscape, Nitsch Engineering (Boston), Atelier Ten (NYC) for sustainable development and ourselves as lead.
Excerpts from Kentucky.com the Lexington Herald Leader: ‘…Town Branch Commons, envisioned as a two-mile stretch of green space through downtown, was a major recommendation of the Arena, Arts and Entertainment District master plan.
The plan was developed in 2011 by architect Gary Bates and the Norway-based architectural firm Space Group. Bates’ idea was to bring the creek to the surface in some form and create a linear park to connect the entertainment district on the west end with the rest of downtown.’
Read more here.
Full team includes:
JDS/Julien De Smedt Architects: architecture, urban planning
Balmori Associates, Inc.: Landscape Design
Nitsch Engineering: Civil Engineering
Atelier Ten: Environmental Sustainability
James Lima Planning + Development: Consultant for Economics of Place Making
Creative Concern Ltd: Multi-Media Design
23 November, 2012 at 15:27
Director of the National Museum, Mr. Audun Eckhoff, opens exhibition using our Stoop as a speech podium. Photograph by Boerre Hoestland.
Never before have so many foreign architects won competitions or received commissions in Norway. What is the impact of increasing internationalization on the identity
and quality of Norwegian architecture? Alongside the likes of Steven Holl, MVRDV, Peter Zumthor or Renzo Piano, Julien De Smedt Architects will present over 10 different projects designed for Norwegian public and private clients.
The show opens to the public today, November 23rd 2012 at the The National Museum – Architecture, Bankplassen 3, Oslo
www.nasjonalmuseet.no
